Rahden
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ' N , 8 ° 37' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Detmold | |
| Circle : | Minden-Lübbecke | |
| Height : | 39 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 137.48 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 15,402 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 112 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 32369 | |
| Primaries : | 05771, 05776 | |
| License plate : | MI | |
| Community key : | 05 7 70 040 | |
| LOCODE : | DE RAH | |
| City structure: | 7 districts | |
City administration address : |
Lange Strasse 9 32369 Rahden |
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| Mayor : | Bert Honsel ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the town of Rahden in the Minden-Lübbecke district | ||
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Rahden [ ˈʀadn ] ( Low German Roh'n ) is a city in the far north of North Rhine-Westphalia between Bielefeld and Bremen and between Hanover and Osnabrück . It belongs to the Minden-Lübbecke district in East Westphalia-Lippe ( Detmold administrative district ).
Rahden was first mentioned in 1033 and from 1816 to 1831 it was the district town of the former Rahden district .
geography
Geographical location
Rahden is located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the north of the Minden-Lübbecke district. In the north of the urban area is the North Rhine-Westphalia point - the northernmost point of the state. The urban area is naturally located in the North German Plain or in the Dümmer-Geest lowland . There are hardly any prominent elevations. The highest "mountain" is the Hohe Feld in the city center at around 59.1 m above sea level. NN . The majority of the urban area is between a minimum of 37 m above sea level. NN and 45 m above sea level NN . In terms of natural space, the area is also partly in the Rahden-Diepenauer Geest and in the north already in a sub-area of the Diepholzer Moorniederung . Here Rahden extends almost to the Oppenweher Moor . In terms of culture, the urban area belongs to the Mindener Land .
Most of the bodies of water in the municipality are drainage canals that drain the area at regular intervals. They were created artificially and often do not form a classic river system of main and tributaries, which results from the direction of flow. One of these ditches is the Tielger Bruchgraben , which drains from Oppenweher Moor into the Große Aue coming from the south . The Great Aue tributary of the Weser flows through the urban area from the south towards the northeast. Coming from the west, the Great Dieck River joins the Great Aue in the urban area. The eastern city limits to Lower Saxony are formed by the Weberbach and, as an extension, the Great Aue tributary, the Wickriede .
The closest major cities are Bielefeld (40 kilometers southwest), Osnabrück (45 kilometers west), Bremen (71 kilometers northeast) and Hanover (75 kilometers southeast).
See also: Natural spaces in OWL , waters in OWL
geology
The geological structure of the area is relatively uniform. Most of the parts are made of Quaternary rocks . Individual hills are made up of layers of the uppermost chalk . In some cases, erratic boulders were introduced into the area during the Ice Age , for example the "Great Stone" from Ton Heath . The floors consist predominantly of geest floors . They are sandy and not very fertile. In the moorland in the north, the area can usually only be used extensively.
Rahden is largely suitable to very well for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery through heat pump heating (see the adjacent map).
Expansion and use of the urban area
The lowest point of the approximately 137 square kilometers large urban area is around 37 m above sea level. NN in the northwest of the municipality. In the city center, the area reaches a height of 59.1 m above sea level. NN . The maximum north-south extension is around 16 km, the maximum west-east distance is around 11 km.
Rahden is an extremely poorly forested, sparsely populated, and relatively strongly landscaped community characterized by district and state comparison. The only larger forest area is the Osterwald near Ton Heath, formerly part of the Wickriede military training area in the southwest. The following table gives an overview of the exact area proportions of the types of use:
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| Area in ha | 10,857 | 733 | 1,706 | 426 | 13 |
| Share of total area | 79% | 5.3% | 12.4% | 3.1% | 0.1% |
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Neighboring communities
The neighboring municipalities of Rahden are clockwise: the city of Espelkamp in the south and the municipality of Stemwede in the west (both district of Minden-Lübbecke). In the north Rahden borders on the Lower Saxony community of Wagenfeld , in the east on the Lower Saxon town of Diepenau in the joint community of Uchte .
City structure
Since the territorial reform in 1973, the following localities have belonged to the city according to § 3 of the main statute:
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| Rahden | 4543 |
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| Little village | 4293 | |
| Varl | 1582 | |
| Sielhorst | 767 | |
| Prussian Ströhen | 1932 | |
| Woe | 1677 | |
| Barrel heather | 1638 |
1 As of January 2012
climate
The climate in Rahden is determined by its location in the ocean-continental transition area of Central Europe and by its location in the North German Plain. The area is mostly in the sub-Atlantic maritime climate , but has temporary continental influences . The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic, the summers are moderately warm and the precipitation is relatively evenly distributed. Westerly and southwesterly winds predominate, which bring precipitation with them.
The long-term average rainfall is 688 mm. The mean annual temperature is around 9.3 ° C. This makes the city one of the driest and warmest areas in East Westphalia . On August 20, 2009, the warmest day of this year in Germany, the weather station in Rahden-Varl reached the highest annual temperature in Germany with 37.8 ° C.
history
Early history
Archaeological finds show that today's urban area was already settled 10,000–12,000 years ago in the Middle Stone Age on the Rahdener Geest . The Geest was a raised threshold in the midst of swampy lowlands and humid areas and thus offered itself as a settlement. Remains of megalithic tombs in Varl ( "High Stones") and the passage grave in Steinkämper field attest to this earliest colonization of today's urban area. Furthermore, barrows in Wehe (preserved) and barrel heath (ground monument) with extensive grave goods such as ash urns, bronze jewelry and a sword indicate settlement in the Bronze Age .
Under episcopal rule
Rahden was first mentioned in the year 1033. In a document from Emperor Konrad II , the emperor confirmed a hoof in Rodun as the property of the St. Martini monastery in Minden . The name Rodun is probably derived from the clearing of the forests. The area around Rahden, like the entire Mindener Land , was under the influence of the diocese of Minden and its secular rule, the Fürstbistum Minden .
At the beginning of the 14th century, the bishops of Minden built a castle in Kleinendorf . At this strategically important ford across the Große Aue , Rahden Castle secured several trade routes that cross here. The moated castle was initially the seat of the episcopal Drosten and later the Brandenburg-Prussian officials and officials of the royal domain administration .
In 1353, Bishop Gerhard I von Schauenburg founded the St. John's Church . It became the starting point for the settlement and today's main town, Rahden. The church on the Sandbrink is a successor to an old Klus (chapel) that must have stood in the area of today's Westerfeld. In 1572 the market of Rahden and the places Kleinendorf, Varl, Sielhorst, Preußisch Ströhen, Wehe and Ton Heath were mentioned for the first time.
Rahden in Minden-Ravensberg
In 1648, after the Peace of Westphalia , the Minden bishopric fell to Brandenburg-Prussia as the secularized principality of Minden . Rahden Castle remained the seat of a bailiff. The Rahden office comprised the north-western part of the principality. This roughly corresponds to today's municipalities of Stemwede and Rahden. In 1719 the principalities of Minden and the county of Ravensberg were merged to form the administrative area of Minden-Ravensberg , while maintaining their formal integrity .
From 1772 u. a. The construction of the New Canal - a side canal of the Great Aue - contributes to the fact that the predominantly wet, swampy and predominantly sandy soils can be used for agriculture on a larger scale. The construction of the drainage systems along the Aue, the Great Dieck River and the Wickriede took around 100 years. With the beginning of these measures, the common brands were divided by the Prussian land reforms in the Rahden area .
In the winter of 1878/79 the castle (the so-called "castle") burned down for the last time. Part of the remaining outer walls form today's ruin.
The Napoleonic period
In 1806 the area around Rahden fell to Napoleon and in 1807 became part of the French vassal state Kingdom of Westphalia . Rahden was initially a canton in the department of the Weser ( Minden district ). Between 1811 and 1813 the area became part of the immediate part of the French Empire . Rahden remained a canton in the Minden district, which was almost completely defeated to form the newly established Département de l'Ems-Supérieur . After the reconquest by Prussia , Rahden was provisionally part of the civil government between the Weser and Rhine from 1813 until the Prussian province of Westphalia was founded .
Rahden in the Prussian province of Westphalia
As early as 1816, after the reconquest of its western territories, the state of Prussia had fundamentally modernized its administrative structures. In 1816 Rahden became the district town of the new Rahden district , which essentially corresponded to the western part of the former principality of Minden. In addition, the Rahden office continued to exist, which consisted of the communities of Großendorf (with spots Rahden), Kleinendorf, Sielhorst, Ströhen, Ton Heath, Varl and Wehe. As early as 1832, the slightly enlarged Rahden district was converted to the Lübbecke district and the district headquarters moved to larger Lübbecke .
During the March Revolution in 1848 there were "tumults" in Rahden and Levern, so that the district administrator called in military, which, however, was not deployed there due to the lack of troops. On April 1, 1910, Espelkamp were formed by hiving off from Großendorf and the remaining municipality was renamed Rahden.
The Prussians promoted in Minden-Ravensberg the flax processing , and so flourished in Rahden in the 18th century textile processing in proto-industrialistischerer division of labor. In the Rahden area there were over 1000 looms that processed the lion's linen . At times 500,000 " ells " ran through the Rahdener Legge . Nevertheless, industrialization in Rahden did not begin to penetrate, so that the poor peasant population called "Rahdener Kiepenkerle " offered their handmade goods, such as wood carvings , throughout Minden-Ravensberg in winter .
In the 19th century, these forms of rural housework were replaced by the increasingly emerging industrial products. Textile production, which was now largely fully industrially organized, also increasingly took place in the industrial centers of Minden-Ravensberg and suffered from considerable competition from the more technologically advanced foreign spinning and weaving mills . In the middle of the 19th century, many Rahden residents were forced to emigrate to America, among other things, or to hire themselves out as Hollanders .
With the construction of the Ravensberger Bahn in 1899 from Bünde to Bassum , Rahden was connected to the main lines of the Cologne-Minden Railway , followed by the line to Uchte in 1910 . This created the basis for further industrial expansion in Rahden. In the middle of the 20th century Rahden developed into a "railway town".
In the Federal Republic of Germany
Since the founding of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rahden district of Preußisch Ströhen has been the northernmost town in the state.
As a result of the major regional reform on January 1, 1973, the Lübbecke district was united with the Minden district ; the communal boundaries were changed significantly. Rahden received its current territorial layout when the current districts and then independent municipalities of the Rahden office were merged into the town of Rahden on January 1, 1973. The southern part of Ton Heath fell to Espelkamp as the district of Schmalge . A small part of the district now belonging to the municipality of Stemwede and the then independent municipality of Oppenwehe was assigned to the new municipality of Rahden. With the municipal reform, Rahden received city rights.
Rahden has been the end point of the so-called “ Ravensberger Bahn ” Bielefeld-Herford-Bünde-Lübbecke-Rahden since 1994 , as the further section leading north to Sulingen-Bassum (-Bremen) was closed at this time. Passenger traffic on the Rahden-Uchte-Nienburg line was stopped in 1968. On the Rahden-Uchte section, a museum railway takes place on a few days in the summer months .
Religions
The majority of the population is Protestant-Lutheran , after the Protestant doctrine was adopted in the prince-bishopric of Minden after 1530 in its individual parishes at different, often not exactly determinable times. In 1648 the principality was secularized and the Principality of Minden was added to Protestant Prussia. It was not until the 20th century that changes on the denominational map occurred as a result of the migration caused by the Second World War and its consequences, general internal migration and secularization, the influx of ethnic repatriates from Eastern Europe and southern European guest workers. The various churches in the center of Rahden are available to the various denominations. In the center of the village there is the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church and a New Apostolic Church, as well as the Catholic Michaels Church and a Mennonite prayer house in the Kleinendorf district . In other districts there are Evangelical Lutheran churches and community centers.
A certain indication of the denominational distribution can be the indication of the denominational affiliation of the Rahden students. According to this, around 79% of the students in the 2003/2004 school year were Protestant, 6% Catholic and 3% Islamic. 6% said they belonged to another denomination, and 6% did not belong to any denomination.
Until 1938 there was a Jewish community with a synagogue in Rahden . The synagogue stood on the site of the current city hall parking lot on Langen Strasse. It was completely burned down during the November pogroms in 1938 . A memorial stone on the Rathausparkplatz now commemorates the former Jewish community of Rahden.
Incorporations
Today's town of Rahden was created in a regional reform under the Bielefeld Act of October 24, 1972 to January 1, 1973. For this purpose, the seven independent municipalities of the Rahden office ( Lübbecke district ) were combined. These form today's districts of Rahden. At the same time Rahden became part of the newly formed Minden-Lübbecke district. In addition to minor, insignificant land consolidations on this date, a small part in the east of the municipality of Oppenwehe ( Amt Dielingen-Wehdem ) was reclassified to Rahden and the southern part of the municipality of Tonheide was transferred as the district of Schmalge to Espelkamp , which was also redesigned on January 1, 1973 . After January 1, 1973 there were no further reclassifications or incorporations into the urban area.
Population development
The following tables show the population development since 1885.
| year | Residents | swell |
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| 1885 (December 31) | 861 | |
| 1925 (December 31) | 1.934 | |
| 1933 (December 31) | 2.126 | |
| 1939 (December 31) | 2,288 | |
| 1961 (June 6) | 3,870 | |
| 1970 (May 27) | 4,060 | |
| 1972 (December 31) | 4.015 |
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politics
City council
Rahden City Council currently has 36 seats. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the local election results since 1975:
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| Political party | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % |
| CDU | 17th | 48.06 | 17th | 48.60 | 19th | 58.06 | 21st | 64.35 | 18th | 52.71 | 19th | 53.47 | 19th | 54.76 | 19th | 57.60 | 21st | 61.14 |
| SPD | 9 | 23.70 | 9 | 24.14 | 8th | 23.59 | 8th | 26.02 | 11 | 34.00 | 11 | 33.35 | 11 | 32.68 | 12 | 36.35 | 10 | 31.93 |
| FWG 1 | 6th | 16.36 | 5 | 14.15 | 2 | 7.54 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| FDP | 2 | 5.60 | 3 | 8.09 | 2 | 6.45 | 2 | 6.06 | 2 | 6.19 | 2 | 7.98 | 2 | 6.82 | 2 | 6.06 | 2 | 6.93 |
| GREEN | 2 | 6.28 | 2 | 5.01 | 1 | 4.36 | 1 | 3.57 | 2 | 7.10 | 1 | 5.20 | 1 | 5.73 | - | - | - | - |
| Total 2 | 36 | 100 | 36 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 |
| voter turnout | 52.65 | 55.04 | 55.30 | 57.27 | 78.69 | 68.88 | 70.44 | 72.20 | 84.64 | |||||||||
1 Free community of voters
2 without taking into account rounding differences
Allocation of seats in the city council since 2009
For comparison: the distribution of seats in the city council from 2004 to 2009
mayor
The full-time mayor is currently Bert Honsel (CDU). He was elected on September 13, 2015 in the first ballot with 61.1 percent of the valid votes. On October 21, 2015, Bert Honsel took over the official duties of Bernd Hachmann, who was the first full-time mayor of the city of Rahden from 1999 to 2015. The office of city director was abolished with the introduction of a full-time mayor. It had been exercised by Bernd Hachmann until the local elections on September 12, 1999. Since then, the mayor has also taken on the role of head of administration. In the election on September 26, 2004, Hachmann was re-elected with 83.7 percent of the valid votes, in 2009 with 63.33 percent.
Terms of office of mayors and city directors since 1973:
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Coat of arms, flag, banner and seal
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The city was granted the right to use a coat of arms, a flag and a banner by a certificate from the district president dated April 19, 1973. According to § 2 of the main statute, the coat of arms shows:
- Under a silver (white) shield head with three blue five-petalled roses in red, two crosswise silver (white) hooks with a handle.
The flag is longitudinally striped (divided) in red and white with the city's heraldic shield shifted from the center to the pole, with the head of the shield in the red flag stripe and the rest of the shield in the white flag stripe. The banner is red-white-red in a ratio of 1: 3: 1 striped lengthways with the coat of arms in the middle of the upper half.
The city's coat of arms and seal were designed by Heinrich Bretthauer, the secondary school teacher and local researcher at the time. The three blue flowers, designated as roses in the main statute and blazon , symbolize flax blossoms (see also the coat of arms of the Bielefeld district ), which were once made into linen around the Rahden Legge , and the two diagonally crossed sheep hooks symbolize the agricultural Rahden region in earlier times Times.
Town twinning
Rahden has two city partnerships:
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Glindow , part of the city of Werder in Brandenburg, since October 3, 1990 -
Galgahévíz (Hungary), since 1995
Culture and sights
theatre
The theater in the pavilion (TIP) of the former secondary school in the Wehe district, sponsored by the Volkshochschule Altkreis Lübbecke, shows plays, music theater, children's theater, youth theater and cabaret performances in the theater with around 100 seats.
Museums
- In the city there is the Museumshof Rahden with historical farm buildings, a mill and equipment from the area. The ensemble also includes a stone oven from the 16th century. Bread and cakes are still baked here on the meal and baking days.
- In Rahden the association Museums-Eisenbahn Rahden-Uchte e. V. is at home. There are exhibitions on local railway history. In addition, the association carries out trips on the Rahden-Uchte route in the summer months (see also #Verkehr ).
music
The bands and orchestras in Rahden include the marching bands of the local rifle clubs, the mining band of Kleinendorf, the Rahden home band and trombone choirs in Prussian Ströhen and Rahden. There are also numerous choral societies: the Cantulianer, Frischauf Sielhorst, Frohsinn Kleinendorf, Liedertafel Rahden, Gesangverein Sangeslust Ton Heide, Kantorei and children's choir Rahden as well as the Singkreis Preußisch Ströhen. Furthermore, the secondary schools in Rahden, the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule and the grammar school in Rahden, have their own school bands.
Buildings
- Castle ruins in Rahden-Kleinendorf : The castle was built between 1310 and 1320 and served for many years as the seat of various officials. The castle burned down for the last time in the winter of 1878/1879 and has only been in ruins since then.
- Burg Stelle : The castle in Stelle is only preserved as a ground monument . The castle was first mentioned in documents in the 13th century. The Stelle Castle seems to have only been important for a short time, because Rahden Castle, only a few kilometers away, was permanently expanded in brick construction in the 14th century.
- St. John's Church: The west tower of the church dates from the 13th century, the nave originally from 1353. The latter was rebuilt in 1789 and completely redesigned. According to tradition, the foundation of the church goes back to Minden Bishop Gerhard I in 1353. The church has a classicist nave with preserved Gothic south and east walls.
- Rahden train station from 1899 with a locomotive shed and turntable : Originally there was a water tower near the locomotive shed, but it was blown up at the end of 1969. From 2007 the station building was extensively renovated. After the renovation of the station, the local cultural association “Kul-Tür” found a new home in the old goods shed. Performances for up to 160 guests are possible here. In addition to the city archive, the museum railway's chronicle group has found a new home in the main building. Furthermore, rooms have been created for the DRK . The city of Rahden has set up a “wedding room” in the old office of the station master, a branch of the registry office in the town hall.
- Marktschänke, Alter Markt 1: This half-timbered hall house from around 1680 is now the Marktschänke. It is the birthplace of Carl Langhorst , the honorary citizen of the city of Rahden. In addition, the old Rahden cinema used to be located here. It was extensively restored in 1985/1986.
- Rahden Castle from 1883: Rahden Castle was built in 1883 by the landowner Bock in what is now the Kleinendorf district. It is also commonly known as "Gut Bock". Today the building houses the administration wing of the extensive “Schloss Rahden” senior citizens' home. The castle is located in the immediate vicinity of the Rahden castle ruins .
In addition, the following Rahden mills are part of the Westphalian Mill Road :
- Post mill in Rahden-Wehe : According to current knowledge, this mill is the oldest windmill standing at one location in the Minden-Lübbecke district. A mill has stood here since around 1370. It was mentioned as a bishop's mill in a document book from 1370. In 1982 the mill was restored.
- Wedding mill intonsheide : The eye-catching gallery Dutchman was built in stone in 1878 and houses a registry office. It is therefore called the “wedding mill”.
- Rossmühle Rahden : This Göpelmühle is one of two preserved Rossmühle in the district and is in the museum courtyard in Rahden-Kleinendorf . The Rossmühle, built around 1860, was originally located intonsheide-Hahnenkamp.
Parks
Rahden is poor in park-like facilities. The only park-like green space in the city center is the "Wehme" in the immediate vicinity of the Protestant parish hall. The green area at the “Alter Markt” also has a park-like character with a war memorial, play equipment and benches. In the Kleinendorf district, the “Heimatpark” describes the green area with a lake around the ensemble of museum courtyard, castle ruins and the rifle house.
Natural monuments
- The foundling Großer Stein vontonsheide : The stone is ten meters long, seven meters wide and three meters high. Its weight is about 350 tons. It is the largest known and sufficiently precisely measured land-lying boulder in Northern Germany (lying on the ground possibly surpassed by the Buskam ). On August 30, 1981, it was lifted and transported to its present location.
- The Schnakenpohl in the Varl district southwest of Rahden is a heather pond with special flora, which was designated as a nature reserve as early as 1936, making it the oldest nature reserve in Westphalia. The naturally nutrient-poor standing water has been included in the European Natura 2000 system of protected areas.
- White moor : The 46 hectare area in Tonneheide is an upland and low moor, which is characterized by the fauna and flora typical of the moor.
- The NRW North point refers to the northernmost point of North Rhine-Westphalia. There are events, art and sometimes gastronomy on site. The north point is often the meeting point / destination of motorcyclists / routes.
In the urban area also four other protected areas are identified: the Filger break that Karl Moor , the Weher Fledder and surcharge . In the northwest the urban area extends to the Dümmer Nature Park .
The 23 designated natural monuments in Rahden are made up of 17 solitary trees and groups of trees, including the Bocks Allee in Kleinendorf, which consists of almost 60 linden trees , five two-dimensional objects and the Großer Stein vontonsheide as the only geological object.
Sports
By far the largest sports club in the city and also one of the largest in the old Lübbecke district is TuSpo 09 Rahden e. V. with approx. 1386 members. Is offered u. a. Badminton , basketball , fitness, soccer , athletics , Taekwon-Do (self-defense), table tennis , gymnastics, volleyball , walking or Nordic walking and spinal exercises . The wheelchair basketball club Baskets 96 Rahden played in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2017/2018 season and again since the 2019/2020 season. Other sports clubs in the area of the city are the TuS "Schwarz-Weiß" Wehe, the Union Varl, Eintracht Ton Heide, SSV Preussisch Ströhen and the Association League table tennis club RTTC.
In and around Rahden there are around 90 kilometers of well-developed inline skate trails with signposted restaurants and sights. All start and end points of the various routes can be reached with the regional train Eurobahn . The landscape around Rahden can also be explored very well by bike. In recent years, many new bike paths have been built for this purpose, and interesting routes have been signposted.
Regular events
Annual events such as the Rahden city festival (usually the second weekend in June) and the Rahden flea market (mostly in mid-September) as well as the auto show in spring attract thousands of visitors to the city center. In the district of Pr. Ströhen the Preußisch Ströher market takes place at the end of September. All events are organized by the Rahden advertising association. On the first weekend in Advent, the “December dreams” of the Rahden advertising association take place regularly. This Christmas market takes place in the shadow of the St. Johannis Church in Rahden.
At the end of June there has been a " medieval hustle and bustle " on the grounds of the museum courtyard since 2013 .
Since 2003 the event “Rahden is boiling over” has been established in October. This weekend, the Rahden gastronomy will be presenting its specialties. To this end, each restaurant usually adopts a specific motto.
Culinary specialties
A typical drink in the Rahdener Land is the "Ströher Schwarten", which, as the saying goes, you can always drink it as long as the fir trees are green. The “rind” consists of one third each of coffee beans , wheat grain and hot water. It is then sweetened with sugar to taste. The name comes from the Low German and means "black grog". In the local gastronomy, the hot beverage cappuccino can sometimes still be found in the variant “ coffee with whipped cream ”.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Road traffic
Rahden is connected to the trunk road network via the federal highway 239 . The next connection points to the German motorway network are the AS Kirchlengern to the A30 (approx. 30 km), the AS Bad Eilsen to the A2 (approx. 45 km), the AS Osnabrück-Schinkel to the A33 (approx. 45 km) and the AS Bremen -Brinkum to the A1 (approx. 75 km). A Rahden / Diepenau junction was planned in the 1970s for the area of the A5 between Bremen and Gießen, but this section of the motorway was never built.
Rail and bus transport
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The Rahden train station is located on the formerly continuous Bassum – Herford railway line (also known as the “Ravensberger Bahn”), on which the regional train named after it runs every hour RB 71the Eurobahn runs to Bünde , Herford , Bielefeld and then via Warendorf to Münster .
Passenger traffic was carried out until May 1994 via Rahden via Sulingen to Bassum , from where the trains to Bremen were connected. A planned reactivation of this shortest connection between Ostwestfalen-Lippe and Bremen did not materialize. Since Easter 2009, the Shire Handcars GmbH offers on the disused stretch of Rahden by Wagenfeld Ströhen trolley rides on.
The “Bassum-Bünde Railway Action Alliance” is planning to reactivate the Bassum – Rahden line as the “Dümmer-Weser Railway” under the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Railway by 2020.
A museum railway runs on the former railway line to Uchte and runs as planned in the summer months.
In road passenger transport associate regional buses to Espelkamp , Lübbecke , Stemwede , Minden , Sulingen , Diepenau and lamp .
Rahden is part of the Westfalentarif tariff association ( TeutoOWL network ). In the buses to Sulingen, however, the Bremen / Lower Saxony (VBN) network tariff applies from the city limits . The bus line to Uchte applies the tariff of the transport company Landkreis Nienburg .
air traffic
The nearest international airport is Bremen Airport (approx. 80 km north). Other airports are in Greven (approx. 85 km south-west), Hanover (approx. 100 km east) and Paderborn / Lippstadt (approx. 100 km south-west). In Porta Westfalica-Vennebeck (approx. 35 km southeast) there is a commercial airfield which is mainly used by business travelers, private pilots and glider pilots.
Bicycle traffic
Rahden has a very well developed network of cycle paths. Almost all villages are connected to the city center via bike paths. There are also many low-traffic side streets on which you can explore the landscape by bike. Rahden is also on the signposted “Weser-Lippe” train-bike route and the mill route of the mill circle. A total of 4 routes start or end in Rahden at the museum courtyard.
media
The print media appearing in Rahden include the three local newspapers with their local sections and a local advertising paper of the local trade association.
- The Rahden newspaper of the Westfalen-Blatt ( Bielefeld )
- The Neue Westfälische with the local edition for Rahden and Espelkamp ( Bielefeld )
- The Diepholzer Kreisblatt of the district newspaper with the local section for Rahden and Stemwede ( Syke )
Twice a month on Thursday the advertising-financed advertising paper “Die Kiepe” appears in Rahden. It has been published since 1951. It is published by the Rahden trade association as a local information medium.
The radio workshop Wehe , sponsored by the VHS Rahden, complements the regional offer of Radio Westfalica as part of the community radio .
In 2013 the second season of the satirical ZDF science show Don't copy! Shot in an old farm in the village of Varl. Here worked Wigald Boning and Bernhard Hoëcker as moderators on site.
telecommunications
In the south-west of Rahden there is a 120 meter high telecommunications tower ( ▼ ) owned by Deutsche Telekom . In contrast to most other telecommunications towers of a comparable height, it does not have an operating room and, in addition to radio relay, is also used for broadcasting the programs of the local radio station Radio Westfalica with 80 watts transmission power in the VHF range.
Public facilities
With the Rahden Hospital , the city is one of the four locations of the Mühlenkreiskliniken . It is a primary care center specializing in internal medicine and surgery as well as an orthopedic ward. In December 2006, the district council passed the decision in principle to plan a new building in Rahden. At the same time, the Rahden City Council decided to support the new building with one million euros. In order to ensure the health care in the northern area of the Mühlenkreis, a new portal clinic is planned near the current location, sponsored by the Mühlenkreiskliniken. A rescue station sponsored by the Minden-Lübbecke district is located in the immediate vicinity of the hospital.
In the Rahden city library, in the former rooms of the private business school Dr. Kohlhase , around 16,000 books can be borrowed from various fields. Magazines and audio books are also available. The city archive is also located in the library.
A volunteer fire brigade with a fire fighting group / platoon per village ensures fire protection in the city. The youth fire brigade in the city center and in Pr. Ströhen takes care of the next generation.
In the district of Kleinendorf there is an indoor and outdoor pool, which especially in the summer months attracts many visitors from the surrounding areas.
Rahden belongs to the district court district Rahden as well as to the employment office and tax office Lübbecke.
education
primary school
The city of Rahden has a total of four primary schools in the city center and in the districts of Varl , Ton Heide and Pr. Ströhen. The primary school in Rahden is the largest in the Minden-Lübbecke district and is located in the school building of the old primary and secondary school in the city center near the church.
secondary schools
The Rahden secondary school has been located in the new building in the Rahden school center since 1994. Up until 1990 there were two secondary schools in Rahden. HS I in the city center and HS II in the Wehe district. Due to a lack of pupil numbers, the Wehe secondary school was closed in 1990 and connected to the HS I to form the Rahden secondary school. Until the completion of the new building in the school center in 1994, the secondary school was in a shared building with the primary school in the city center on Schulstrasse.
secondary school
The Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule in Rahden was rebuilt in 1954 in today's school center "Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße". Around 500 students attend this school today. In the immediate vicinity of the secondary school there is also the Rahden city sports hall, which is available to all students at the school center. The secondary school will be closed on July 31, 2019.
Secondary school
The Rahden municipal secondary school opened in the summer of 2014. The classrooms are located in the Rahden secondary school building. 366 students are currently attending grades 5 to 7.
high school
The Gymnasium Rahden is the youngest type of secondary school in Rahden. In 1995 a grammar school was built in Rahden for the first time. Initially in the rooms of the former private business school Dr. Kohlhase in the city center, the grammar school is now in the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße school center, where the first construction phase for the new grammar school was built in 1996.
Others
In addition to the types of school listed here, Rahden is part of the Lübbecker Land community college and the “Espelkamp-Rahden-Stemwede” music school association. Up until the 1980s there was still a home economics school, until 1992 the private business school Dr. Kohlhase and an agricultural vocational school in the Kleinendorf district.
The educational offer is completed by a total of 8 kindergartens and day care centers, which are available almost everywhere in almost all localities.
canteen
Since February 2009 there is a cafeteria for secondary schools in the school center. It is directly adjacent to the secondary school and with 150 seats offers the students of the three schools a warm meal at lunchtime. The cafeteria is run by the Lübbecker workshops.
The Rahden “Jugendcafé” also found a new home in the cafeteria. With the reopening, the open child and youth work of the city of Rahden received new and larger rooms and thus more and better opportunities to offer young people space for meaningful leisure activities. In addition to a pool table and table football, there are numerous games available. It is also equipped with three computers with Internet access that can be used free of charge.
Established businesses
The economic structure is predominantly medium-sized. The focus of the local economy is in the field of mechanical engineering, metal construction and metal casting. The service and health sectors are also well represented. There are around 4600 jobs subject to social insurance available in the city (status: 2nd quarter 2007). In 2007 the unemployment rate was around 4.6 percent.
The largest company is the mechanical engineering group Kolbus GmbH & Co. KG , which, with over 1000 employees, develops and manufactures bookbinding machines and complete inline production systems for the print processing industry at its main location in Rahden . The second largest company with around 250 employees is Heinrich Meier Eisengießerei GmbH & Co. KG , which manufactures products for house drainage, yard drainage and street drainage. With the Sielhorster Fire Insurance Association a. G. (founded in 1896) is a small independent insurance association.
The city of Rahden is further upgraded as a commercial location through the establishment of the Harting Technology Group , which is relocating part of its administrative and production activities from the neighboring city of Espelkamp to Rahden and continues to use the former Windhorst Center . The Marie Leidorf publishing house (VML), which specializes in archaeological publications, is also located in Rahden.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The only honorary citizen of the city of Rahden is the portrait painter , poet and composer of the "New Westphalia March " Carl Langhorst (died 1950 in Rahden) , who was born in Großendorf in 1867 . A street in the city center was named after him.
sons and daughters of the town
The personalities listed here come from the city of Rahden and have regional, national or even international significance. The list is not exhaustive.
(As far as possible, instead of the general information Rahden, the municipality of origin or later the respective district is noted. As each column can be sorted, not only the surname can be sorted alphabetically, but anniversary years can also be found quickly.)
| Surname | born | in | died | in | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine von Halle | 1533 | Rahden | 1603 | Breitenburg | Wife of Heinrich Rantzau |
| Franz Christian von Borries | 1723 | Rahden | 1795 | Leopoldshöhe | Privy councilor and nobleman |
| Carl Langhorst | 1867 | Rahden | 1950 | Rahden | Painter and composer |
| Ernst Lindemann | 1869 | Rahden | 1943 | Luneburg | painter |
| Christian Rosenbohm | 1878 | Rahden | 1948 | Luebbecke | Member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, member of the provincial parliament for Westphalia |
| Heinrich Bretthorst | 1883 | Rahden | 1962 | Leipzig | Politician (SPD / SED) |
| Friedrich Schepsmeier | 1949 | Rahden | Was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Hermann Schwengel | 1949 | Rahden | 2014 | Sociologist and university professor | |
| Friedhelm Ortgies | 1950 | Rahden | Was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Wilhelm Priesmeier | 1954 | Rahden | Member of the Bundestag | ||
| Andreas Brandhorst | 1956 | Rahden | Fantasy and science fiction writer and translator | ||
| Benny Schnier | 1957 | Rahden | Radio and television presenter and singer | ||
| Kurt Bock | 1958 | Rahden | Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF | ||
| Achim Post | 1959 | Rahden | Deputy Federal Managing Director of the SPD, member of the Bundestag | ||
| Michael Buhre | 1961 | Rahden | former mayor of Minden | ||
| Dietmar Kolbus | 1966 | Rahden | Chess player | ||
| Bianca Winkelmann | 1967 | Rahden | Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Chris Bollenbach | 1972 | Rahden | Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Tine Wittler | 1973 | Rahden | Writer and TV presenter (use in four walls, RTL) | ||
| Lars Windhorst | 1976 | Rahden | Entrepreneur | ||
| Stefan Wessels | 1979 | Rahden | Goalkeeper, etc. a. at FC Bayern Munich | ||
| Daniela Beihl | 1984 | Rahden | Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia |
Other personalities who were / are connected with the city
| Surname | born | in | died | in | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Heinrich Ebmeier | 1793 | Key castle | 1850 | Paderborn | District judge in Rahden and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly |
| Johann Heinrich Volkening | 1796 | Hille | 1877 | Bad Holzhausen | Theologian, assistant pastor in Ströhen |
| Elsbeth Montzheimer | 1856 | Berlin | 1926 | Rahden | Writer |
| Karl Röttger | 1877 | Luebbecke | 1942 | Dusseldorf | Writer, pseudonym: Jacobus von Rahden |
| Ludwig Rickert | 1897 | Schelze (Poznan) | 1963 | Wuppertal | Lord Mayor of Bonn and teacher in Rahden |
| Inge Höger | 1950 | Diepholz | Member of the Bundestag, went to school in Rahden | ||
| Günter Kozlowski | 1953 | Bielefeld | Member of the State Parliament, State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia, City Director in Rahden |
literature
- R. Spönemann, W. Kirchhof (Hrsg.): The old office Rahden in pictures and views. Photo book from 1987.
- Torsten Kuhlmann (Ed.): The history of the SPD Rahden: Organization, history and people at a glance. Pro Business, 2006, ISBN 3-939533-35-1 .
- Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Rahden (Ed.): From the center to life. 650 years of St. Johannis Church in Rahden. Historical and contemporary contributions. VML Vlg Marie Leidorf, 2003, ISBN 3-89646-904-5
- NN: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Sulingen - Rahden railway line. Plenge. 1950.
- NN: Chronicle for the 100th anniversary of the Rahden volunteer fire brigade. Wolfgang Meier, 1985.
- Werner Kirchhoff (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the community Rahden 1818–1888: With an article and a register. VML Vlg Marie Leidorf, 1995, ISBN 3-924734-83-6 .
- City of Rahden (Hrsg.): Rahden through the ages. 2008 (illustrated book for the 975th anniversary).
Web links
- Website of the city of Rahden
- Information on the Preußisch Ströhen district
- Information on the Varl district
- Northernmost point in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Rahden in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
- ↑ a b State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW: Municipal profile Rahden, City ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 220 kB)
- ↑ Main statute of the city of Rahden October 28, 1999
- ^ Website of the city of Rahden. City info. statistics
- ^ City of Detmold: Climate Maps ( Memento from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ klimadiagramme.de: The climate in Rahden-Varl
- ↑ Germany is sweating through the hottest day of the year , AFP report from August 20, 2009 on de.news.yahoo.com ( Memento from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Reinhold Spönemann: Tumults in Rahden and Levern during the March days, 1848. Messages from the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 48 (1976), pp. 91–93.
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 274 .
- ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Schoolchildren at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation (archive version) (PDF) ( Memento from October 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 325 .
- ↑ a b Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the local government reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 115 and 119 .
- ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the Reich in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. luebbecke.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05770040
- ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
- ↑ State Returning Officer NRW: The Ministry of the Interior informs: Final result for Rahden 2004
- ↑ LWL press release: New castle discovered in East Westphalia. LWL archaeologists examine Burg Stelle.
- ↑ Directory of natural monuments. (PDF, 347 kB) Minden-Lübbecke district, lower landscape authority, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
- ^ TuSpo 09 Rahden eV | Numbers and facts of the association. In: tuspo-rahden.de. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
- ^ Rainer Placke: Baskets Rahden with international experience. In: New Westphalian . Newspaper publisher Neue Westfälische GmbH & Co. KG, September 29, 2017, accessed on January 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Adrian Rehling: After the promotion, the Baskets 96 Rahden start the first division season at home against the Rhine River Rhinos: »Come to stay«. In: Westfalen-Blatt . Westfalen-Blatt Vereinigte Zeitungsverlage GmbH, September 27, 2019, accessed on January 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Shire Draisinen
- ^ Action alliance for the Bassum-Bünde railway line
- ↑ Bernhard and Wigald let it rip. In: New Westphalian. Edition of June 13, 2013, accessed April 10, 2014.
- ↑ FVS Rahden. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Rahden Municipal Secondary School - HOME. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
Rahden | Kleinendorf | Varl | Sielhorst | Prussian Ströhen | Woe | Barrel heather
Cities: Bad Oeynhausen | Espelkamp | Lübbecke | Minden | Petershagen | Porta Westfalica | Prussian Oldendorf | Rahden . Municipalities: Hille | Hüllhorst | Stemwede .